You can be obsessed by remorse all your life, not because you chose the wrong thing- you can always repent, atone : but because you never had the chance to prove to yourself that you would have chosen the right thing.

Sometimes you say things with a smile with the precise intention of making it clear that you are not being serious, and are only kidding. If I salute a friend with a smile and say, "How are you, you old scoundrel!" clearly I don't really mean he's a scoundrel.

I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.

Ugliness is more inventive than beauty. Beauty always follows certain camps. I think it's more amusing - ugliness - than beauty.

The only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

A great problem of the internet is how to filter information, how to discard what is not relevant or what is silly and to keep only the important information.

The more elusive and ambiguous a symbol is, the more it gains significance and power.